​The hard copy of the Annual Report 2017-2018 contains a short synopsis of each article.

Full articles are available to download below.

Full articles

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Foreword (PDF – 546KB – link opens in a new window)

Overview (PDF – 105KB – link opens in a new window)

Industrial Impact and Innovation (PDF – 36KB – link opens in a new window)

Communication and outreach activities within the CLF (PDF – 601KB – link opens in a new window)

High Energy Density & High Intensity Physics (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 1187KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Plasma density optimisation of laser-wakefield acceleration for high-brightness bremsstrahlung emission applied to advanced manufacturing imaging (01 – Baird PDF – 1932KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam (Link to published paper)
  3. Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses (Link to published paper)
  4. Characterisation of a Laser Plasma Betatron Source for High Resolution X-ray Imaging (04 – Finlay PDF – 1861KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Radiation pressure-driven plasma surface dynamics in ultra-intense laser pulse interactions with ultra-thin foils (Link to published paper)
  6. Laser-wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures (06 – Hussein PDF – 1139KB – link opens in a new window)
  7. Measurements of self-guiding of ultrashort laser pulses over long distances (Link to published paper)
  8. Comparative study of betatron radiation from different injection mechanisms in a gas jet (08 – Rozario PDF – 7080KB – link opens in a new window)
  9. Polarization Dependence of Bulk Ion Acceleration from Ultrathin Foils Irradiated by High-Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Link to published paper)
  10. Low-Density Hydrodynamic Optical-Field-Ionized Plasma Channels Generated with an Axicon Lens (Link to published paper)
  11. Experimental Observation of a Current-Driven Instability in a Neutral Electron-Positron Beam (Link to published paper)
  12. General features of experiments on the dynamics of laser-driven electron–positron beams (Link to published paper)
  13. Simulated Optimisation of a 10 mJ Class, mid-IR Driven Laser Wakefield Accelerator Demonstrating a High Charge, MeV Electron Source Created via Extreme Laser Redshifting (13 – Wood PDF – 2519KB – link opens in a new window)
  14. Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme (Link to published paper)
  15. Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature (Link to published paper)
  16. Observation of extremely strong shock waves in solids launched by petawatt laser heating (Link to published paper)
  17. Experimental demonstration of a compact epithermal neutron source based on a high power laser (Link to published paper)
  18. An ultra-high gain and efficient amplifier based on Raman amplification in plasma (Link to published paper)
  19. Development of focusing plasma mirrors for ultraintense laser-driven particle and radiation sources (Link to published paper)

 

Laser Science & Development (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 676KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Artemis Upgrade, Relocation and the New 100 kHz OPCPA Laser for Ultra / Artemis (20 – Springate PDF – 481KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Characterisation of the Carrier Envelope Phase of Few-Cycle Short-Wave Infrared Pulses (21 – Wyatt PDF – 795KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Measurements of the sample vibration in the material science station of Artemis (Abstract available only – 22 – Zhang (abstract only) PDF – 117KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Benchmarking the performance of the spin-resolved time-of-flight electron analyzer in Artemis (23 – Zhang PDF – 248KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. CARAVAGGIO: a new experimental station for characterising materials and optics over a wide range of temperatures (24 – De Vido PDF – 313KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Suppression of reflected power in the DiPOLE cryogenically cooled amplifier head (Abstract available only – 25 – Smith (abstract only) PDF – 99KB – link opens in a new window)
  7. Increasing the productivity of the DiPOLE prototype laser (26 – Smith PDF – 515KB – link opens in a new window)
  8. Femtosecond Timing Monitor for Gemini Laser area (27 – Bourgeois PDF – 209KB – link opens in a new window)
  9. Implementation of a spectrally-resolved inverted-field autocorrelator for angular dispersion measurements in Gemini (28 – Gregory PDF – 362KB – link opens in a new window)
  10. Software developments in Gemini (29 – Marshall PDF – 367KB – link opens in a new window)
  11. Manufacture and assembly of shell-and-cone targets for plasma collision experiments (30 – Ariyathilaka PDF – 421KB – link opens in a new window)
  12. Development of patterned tape-drive targets for high rep-rate HPL experiments (31 – Astbury PDF – 529KB – link opens in a new window)
  13. Study of the prompt aberrations of the Vulcan TAP Beamline (32 – Musgrave PDF – 604KB – link opens in a new window)
  14. Control of the temporal shape of nanosecond long lasers using feedback loops (33 – Oliveira PDF – 1734KB – link opens in a new window)
  15. Progress towards coherent combination of free-space femtosecond laser pulses (34 – Galimberti PDF – 469KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Theory & Computation (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 540KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Enhancing the propagation of fast electron beam through the use of graded-resistivity guides (Link to published paper)
  2. Modelling the effects of the radiation reaction force on the interaction of thin foils with ultra-intense laser fields (Link to published paper)

 

Plasma Diagnostics (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 591KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Assessment of cameras for low intensity acquisitions (37 – Dasgupta camera PDF – 1145KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Specular transmittance of 3D printed plastic at different thickness (38 – Dasgupta plastic PDF – 1111KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Simulating short pulse scintillation light with a pulsed LED (39 – Dasgupta LED PDF – 849KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Application of silicon photomultipliers in scintillation based radiation detectors (40 – Dasgupta SiPM PDF – 1458KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. A novel in-situ dual channel alignment system for precision alignment of complex targetry (41 – Green PDF – 205KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. 3D ray tracing of a high intensity laser beam through plasma guiding structures (42 – Martin PDF – 1057KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Ultrafast & XUV Science (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 572KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. Ponderomotive acceleration of photoelectrons in pump-probe experiments (43 – Weinelt PDF – 451KB – link opens in a new window)
  2. Soft x-ray interferometry for pump-probe spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging (44 – OKeeffe PDF – 453KB – link opens in a new window)
  3. Ultrafast multiphoton photoelectron circular dichroism in alpha-pinene (45 – Powis PDF – 502KB – link opens in a new window)
  4. Observation of layer pseudospin interference in bilayer MoS2 (46 – Ulstrup PDF – 1430KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Imaging & Dynamics for Physical & Life Science (synopsis of each article) (PDF – 619KB – link opens in a new window)

  1. DNA double-stranded breaks probed with super-resolution imaging nanoscopy (Link to published paper)
  2. Solid immersion microscopy images cells under cryogenic conditions with 12 nm resolution (Link to published paper)
  3. Investigating the processes of cell receptor signal regulation (Link to published paper)
  4. Probing Charge-transfer Dynamics of Porphyrin-C60 Dyes and Bodipy Polymers for Solid State Tandem Solar Cells (Abstract available only – 50 – Gibson (abstract only) PDF – 99KB – link opens in a new window)
  5. Photocatalytic Methanol Degradation on a TiO2 Surface Monitored by IR-Vis Sum Frequency Generation through a Transparent Electrode Material (51 – Cowan PDF – 1510KB – link opens in a new window)
  6. Mapping Catalysis with Time-resolved Infra-red Spectroscopy (52 – Lynam PDF – 265KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Operational Statistics (PDF – 512KB – link opens in a new window)

Publications (PDF – 147KB – link opens in a new window)

Panel Membership (PDF – 28KB – link opens in a new window)

CLF Structure (PDF – 271KB – link opens in a new window)

 

Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF)